Building what doesn't exist yet
Music production software hasn't fundamentally changed in 20 years. The same instruments get repackaged. The same workflows get ported to new platforms. Nobody's building the things that don't exist yet. We are.
Desktop DAWs charge hundreds of dollars, require gigabytes of downloads, and haven't invented a genuinely new creative feature in years. Web DAWs simplified the interface but stripped out the depth — 2 or 3 basic synths, no real effects chain, no automation worth using. AI music tools generate full songs from text prompts, removing the creator from the process entirely.
Desktop DAWs
Powerful but expensive, bloated, and stagnant. The same piano roll from 2005. No AI that understands your project. $79 for a piano plugin. $349 for the software itself.
Web DAWs
Accessible but shallow. 2-3 basic synths, limited effects, no bus routing, no sidechain, no real automation. They compromised on depth to run in a browser. We didn't.
AI Generators
Type a prompt, get a song. Your name isn't on it. You didn't make it. You can't edit the individual tracks. It's content generation, not music creation.
onomo exists because there's room for something genuinely new. Not a cheaper version of what exists. Not a simpler version. A studio that builds the features nobody else is building — slide notes with per-node pitch curves, spatial ribbons for per-note stereo placement, AI that reads your entire project before responding, synthesized drum engines instead of sample playback — and makes all of it free to use, in a browser, with zero install.
AI that reads your entire project
AIRESS reads every track, every note, every clip, every automation curve, every mixer setting. It knows your key, your tempo, what instruments you're using, and what musical roles are missing. Then it generates contextually-aware content that fits.
No other DAW — web or desktop — has an AI that reads your full project state.
Slide notes with per-node control
Multi-node pitch curves where each node has its own velocity curve, each bend segment has its own curve type, and each segment can have independent LFO modulation. FL Studio has basic slides. onomo has per-node velocity curves and LFO on each segment.
FL Studio has slides but not per-node velocity curves, bend curves, or per-segment LFO.
Spatial ribbon — per-note stereo placement
Every note can have its own position in the stereo field. Draw pan and width automation per-note with LFO modulation. Place a chord across the stereo image, or make a melody sweep from left to right.
No web DAW or desktop DAW has per-note spatial pan + width automation.
7 synthesized drum engines
SuperKick, SuperSnare, SuperClap, SuperHat, SuperOpenHat, Super808, SuperPerc — each with full synthesis parameters, not sample playback. 48 snare presets alone across 7 categories. AI can generate entire drum kits with per-engine parameters.
BandLab: 0 synth drums. Soundtrap: 0. Amped Studio: 1. AudioTool: 2.
No creative tools behind paywalls
Every synth engine, every drum engine, every effect is free. All 13 synths. All 12 effects. All 7 drum engines. Upgrades are for storage, AI credits, and professional export — never for the instruments.
Desktop DAWs charge $79+ for individual instrument plugins.
Pitch correction built in — 4 engines
PSOLA, formant-preserving phase vocoder, granular, and delay-line pitch shifting. Not a $79 plugin add-on — it's a standard effect you can add to any track, with full automation support.
FL Studio charges extra for NewTone. Ableton has no built-in pitch correction.
Architecture
Every synth uses SharedArrayBuffer ring buffers for lock-free note communication — zero GC pauses
Every effect has both an AudioWorklet processor AND an offline renderer — what you hear is what you export
AI system uses shared context caching across all users — 95%+ cache hit rate at scale
Multi-agent routing: 12 genre-specific drum agents, dedicated melody/bass, chord, songwriting, and solo agents
See for yourself
Try the studio that doesn't exist anywhere else
13 synth engines. 7 drum machines. 12 effects. AI that reads your project. All free.